The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... Later Histories - His best Comedies . - 8 . The Third Stage - Shakspeare's Great Tragedies - His Latest Works 9. Estimate of Shakspeare's Genius . - MINOR DRAMATIC POETS . 10. Shakspeare's Contemporaries - Their Genius - Their Morality ...
... Later Histories - His best Comedies . - 8 . The Third Stage - Shakspeare's Great Tragedies - His Latest Works 9. Estimate of Shakspeare's Genius . - MINOR DRAMATIC POETS . 10. Shakspeare's Contemporaries - Their Genius - Their Morality ...
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... Later Poems - Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes . - 14 . The Para- dise Lost .. Page 270 CHAPTER VIII . THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION AND THE REVOLUTION . A. D. 1668 - A . D. 1702 . 1. Social and Literary Character of the Period ...
... Later Poems - Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes . - 14 . The Para- dise Lost .. Page 270 CHAPTER VIII . THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION AND THE REVOLUTION . A. D. 1668 - A . D. 1702 . 1. Social and Literary Character of the Period ...
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... Later Poems - Beattie's Minstrel . - 10 . The Genius and Writings of Cowper and Burns ..... Page 845 CHAPTER XIII . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . A. D. 1800 - A . D. 1852 . SECTION FIRST : THE CHARACTER OF THE PERIOD . 1. General Character ...
... Later Poems - Beattie's Minstrel . - 10 . The Genius and Writings of Cowper and Burns ..... Page 845 CHAPTER XIII . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . A. D. 1800 - A . D. 1852 . SECTION FIRST : THE CHARACTER OF THE PERIOD . 1. General Character ...
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... present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic population became decisively predominant in Great Britain . The first of the Celtic tongues has oftenest been called.
... present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic population became decisively predominant in Great Britain . The first of the Celtic tongues has oftenest been called.
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... later . No other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar boast . Nor does it appear that the Scottish Celts can point to literary monuments of any kind , having an antiquity at all com- parable to this . Indeed their social ...
... later . No other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar boast . Nor does it appear that the Scottish Celts can point to literary monuments of any kind , having an antiquity at all com- parable to this . Indeed their social ...
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